Katanga (Student Game) : Level Art - Lighting
Katanga is a video game set in the Belgian Congo, in the 1920's. It was my graduation project at Isart Digital Paris.
This post focuses on level architecture, level art and lighting. I took the warehouses and boat from blocking to polish, but also worked on the laboratory and the villa as a level artist and lighting artist.
I worked closely with amazing people, and I learned a lot about lighting and ambiant storytelling during the project. I had a blast !
The work on all of these areas was a group effort within our small team of artists, and I have to thank very much my talented team :
https://www.artstation.com/draellyah
Johan Chaintrier : https://jchaintrier.tumblr.com/
Line Grenèche : https://lgreneche.wixsite.com/portfolio
The inner corridors of our industrial boat.
We had to take gameplay into account for this narrow area, and it made the level art quite challenging !
The warehouses ! I was tasked to take them from greybox to polish. I tried to create some narrative scenes to make them more interesting.
I tried to create some openings to bring in some exterior light and make the mood more dynamic.
Lighting the way for the player to see the path...
One last image ! The warehouses were overall quite fun to create and light up.
The underground laboratory of our fictional villain, Baltus Van Kurtz. I helped on both level art and lighting.
Creating storytelling here was very fun : Van Kurtz studies skulls from different primate species.
And sometimes compares them with fresh ones from live specimen...
The office within the colonial Villa.
I did mostly detail propping in the villa. And I added some lights to make the area easier to navigate for the player.
And finally, the upper deck of the boat, where everything is on fiiiiire !
Very fun area to work on, trying to find just the right amount of fog, flames, and embers.